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Duende, which got its Bauer review this weekend, is a very busy restaurant. Paul Canales’ Spanish-esque restaurant in Oakland did about 250 covers on Saturday, and now the Duende crew is crystallizing the vision of the food and drink operation in their adjacent bodega.

Upon opening, the bodega — which is connected to the restaurant, though it has its own entrance — was used for daytime coffee, drinks and snacks. That’s still the case; it opens at 7am during the week and 9am on the weekends (closed Tuesdays). However, at some point during the opening crush, Duende started using it for overflow seating, offering some small bites and tapas at the high tables there, in addition to the wine bar function. Now, they’re expanding the food offerings to the entire Duende menu.

“We’re just going to open it up,” says Canale.

“We’re going to transition the bodega in the evening into the full menu and allow people full access to the menu, including larger plates, which was something we were worried about initially.”

There will be both servers and tables. All in all, the bodega gives Duende roughly 30 extra seats, available on a first-come, first-serve basis; do note that only about half of the restaurant’s seats are available by reservations. Canales says they’ve also nixed the bodega’s problem of ordering food and wine at two different counters, noting that he also found that set-up to be not very user-friendly.